"Kikyou is being released today." Sesshomaru said.
"Yea, I know as soon as she is home I'll go find Kagome." Inuyasha said.
Inuyasha would have went after her sooner. But found that he didn't want to leave Kikyou's side not for a single second. He wanted to make sure she was better first, she wasn't doing to well ever since Iyori was stolen. And the truth was he wasn't either he had no idea how his daughter was doing. He had never even laid eyes on her.
"I have men all over the country looking for her." Sesshomaru said suddenly.
"I appreciate your help, but why do you want to. I remember we used to hate each other."
That was true they never were the brotherly type. But the truth was he was only helping because he felt guilty about his role in Kikyou's kidnapping. If he could somehow help bring his niece back then he would take his chance.
"Its good to see that you have your memory back, Iyori is my niece I will help you find her."
Inuyasha wasn't completely convinced of this. He still believed that Sesshomaru was in love with Kikyou but he decided not to talk about it. Seeing as how he jut got his full memory back there were more important things he had to think about.
Kikyou had been ready to leave the hospital for a week now. They kept her there a few days longer than they thought. They wanted to run more tests on her, and also police officers kept coming to her talking about her daughter. They told her that they would do everything to help her find Iyori but she didn't respond to them.
If anyone was going to find her daughter it would be her and Inuyasha. She could have died all those weeks she spent as Kagome's prisoner. And they didn't find her, she didn't believe that they could even find her daughter.
"Kikyou?"
She looked up to see both Keade and Sango. They had spent a lot of time with her over the week visiting her everyday. She appreciated them being there for her but she didn't want them to spend all their time worrying about her.
"Hello." she said to them.
Kikyou was already dressed and ready to leave. She didn't want to spend another minute in the hospital. Having Iyori stolen from her made her think of the time when he brother died. She knew that Kagome wouldn't kill her. But she had missed a week of her daughters life, that was the saddest part to her.
"So your being released today?" Sango said.
It was really hard to have a conversation with her these days. They would try and avoid the subject of Iyori all together. Kikyou had been feeling pretty depressed ever since that day, and they couldn't really blame her.
"Yes, it would be good to finally be home. Instead of this hospital." she said.
She had gotten up off the bed and closed the curtains. She didn't feel like waiting for the doctors to come back with her release papers. She wanted to leave now.
"Kikyou don't worry Iyori will be fine." Keade said.
"Yes I know, Inuyasha promised me that he would find her."
He had always kept his promises to her. And now that he had his memory back she was sure things would get better. All she needed now was Iyori back safely then her family would be put back together again.
She took one look at Keade and Sango and then headed to the door.
"Where are you going?" Keade asked.
"Just to get a soda, don't worry I'll be back."
The truth was she was really planning to leave the hospital. She wasn't going to go far she just wanted to leave for awhile. She didn't have a problem getting out of the hospital no one really stopped her from leaving. She decided that she would go to the park that way no one would notice her gone.
But the park wasn't at all the best place to be. She saw nothing but kids and their parents playing in the park. Seeing this made her think of Iyori although she was much to young to actually be playing in the park. As she made her way to a bench to sit down but noticed a very familiar black haired girl.
"Kikyou." the little girl said.
"Yumiko how are you?"
"I'm fine, how are you?"
She couldn't very well tell Yumiko how she was really doing. She decided to just lie and tell Yumiko that she was doing fine.
"I'm okay."
But she could tell that Yumiko didn't believe her. Children had a way of seeing the truth especially when it was very obvious.
"Your upset, whats wrong?" she asked.
Yumiko took a seat next to Kikyou. She could tell that Yumiko was a very bright child, and probably would have figured it out sooner or later. But she wasn't sure how she was exactly supposed to put her pain in words.
Meanwhile Inuyasha was just getting to Kikyou's room. He was already to take her home, he didn't want to leave her alone. He was going to ask Keade and Sango to stay with her until he got back with Iyori. He didn't know exactly how long it was going to take him to find Iyori, but he didn't want her to be alone.
To his surprise Kikyou wasn't even in the room. He looked around and saw that it was only Keade and Sango there.
"Where is Kikyou?" he asked.
"You didn't see her." Keade said.
"You should have passed her in the hallway." Sango said.
Inuyasha was sure that he didn't see her. And if she was in the hallway he must have just missed her. He then left the room and went into the hallway. But he didn't see her anywhere he was starting to think that she wasn't even here.
"Nurse?" he called out.
"Yes Mr. Tanaka?"
"Have you seen Kikyou?" he asked.
The doctors and nurses had knew her by her first name. Only because she had spent so much time there.
"Kikyou, she just left sir."
Inuyasha had figured this much and wasn't surprised. He took off from the hospital and started to look
for her. Meanwhile Kikyou was still in the park with Yumiko she hadn't began to tell her the story just yet.
"Yumiko, I'm just a little sad because I lost my daughter." she said.
"Oh, did she die?"
"No, she's still alive someone stole her from me."
"Oh, I'm sorry Kikyou, I hope you find your baby. I felt kind of sad when my mother didn't love me. But I'm okay now."
She hadn't forgotten about how cruel her mother was to her. That image would always be in the back of her mind. Yumiko was such a wonderful child why wouldn't anyone want her.
"Who do you live with now Yumiko?" Kikyou asked.
"In the orphanage until someone adopts me."
Kikyou looked up and saw Inuyasha coming over to them. Yumiko saw him too but didn't say anything at first.
"Kikyou why did you leave like that?" he asked.
"I just didn't want to stay in the hospital any longer."
He understood that he couldn't stand being in the hospital either. Especially that time when he was there during his car accident. He looked at the girl sitting next to Kikyou he had never seen her before.
"Yumiko this is my husband Inuyasha."
"Um, hi Yumiko." he said.
Yumiko, he remembered now that was the name of the girl Kikyou saved. He couldn't help but feel that Kikyou was using Yumiko to get over not having Iyori.
"Oh cute ears." she said pointing to his dog ears.
Then in the distance she heard her name. The people who lived in the orphanage was calling her to take her back.
"I have to go Kikyou." she said.
"Yes, maybe we will see you again another time."
"Bye Kikyou, Inuyasha." she said.
As soon as she left Inuyasha turned to Kikyou. He was going to tell her that he was leaving soon. So he could find Iyori and kill Kagome for what she did.
"Kikyou you ready to go?" he asked.
"She's really such a lovely child."
"Yumiko, yea I guess so. Do you wish she was your daughter?" he asked.
She turned to look at him surprised. She had grown sort of attached to Yumiko but she knew that she wasn't her daughter.
"Would I want to adopt her yes, but she isn't our daughter." she added.
He was glad to see that Kikyou wasn't relaying on Yumiko to replace Iyori.
"I'm going to find Iyori today." he said.
"I'm going with you." she said.
He knew that he couldn't stop her from going. Iyori was her daughter as well, they would have to go together. He just didn't want her to get hurt.
"Alright Kikyou. I promise we will find her.
(Somewhere in Russia)
Kagome had just checked into a hotel somewhere in Russia. She needed to see a doctor about Iyori's health. Since she was a premature baby her chances looked slim, although she hated Kikyou she didn't want Iyori to die. Soon she heard Iyori crying.
"Iyori please don't cry, mommy is here." she said.
She laid her down in the crib and then went over to the phone. She needed to call Shippou she needed to make sure no one knew where she was.
"Shippou?" she questioned.
"Yes boss."
"No one knows where I' am right."
"Sesshomaru has people on your trail. But no one knows where you are."
This was good news. She wasn't planning on staying in Russia, she would stay for a few days and then head to the U.S. That way no one would ever expect her to go there, she had hoped that Inuyasha would stay with them. And that this time she would be successful in killing Kikyou, she had Iyori that was all she needed from her.
"They will never find me, let them look."
"Boss Naraku is dead."
"He is. Oh well I gave him a simple task all he had to do was rape Kikyou. And he got himself killed, I don't care." she added.
"Alright, boss I'll keep you posted."
"Yea you do that."
She hung on on Shippou before he could say anymore. And then went to Iyori's crib she was wide awake. Her mahogany brown eyes alert as she looked around the room.
"Don't worry baby, daddy will be with us soon." she said quietly.
This story will be over in probably 2 or 3 chapters. R&R